The long road to dialogue among civilizations

摘要

For more than 50 years, UNESCO has been promoting mutual understanding as a cornerstone for dialogue. Promoting mutual understanding between the peoples and civilizations of the world was already one of the objectives of the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation (1925-1946), which preceded UNESCO - its archives have been incorporated into UNESCO's. Leading intellectuals such as Albert Einstein and Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1945 Nobel Prize in literature) sought here to build "the defenses of peace in the minds of men" long before this vision became part of the preamble to UNESCO's 1945 Constitution.